Word: bypassers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone, surgeons annually perform 330,000 coronary bypass operations. An additional 190,000 cardiac patients every year undergo angioplasty, which usually involves the use of a balloon-tipped catheter to widen their arterial passages. Both operations provide immediate, dramatic relief for the cardiac patient. But there are some risks: in rare cases, either technique can trigger a heart attack. Then, too, relief is only temporary. Five years or so after bypass surgery, on average, plaque has built up in the grafted veins. And arteries opened by angioplasty sometimes become partly blocked again within three to six months. Finally, the price...
...stopped once more. Fearful that the spacecraft would lose contact with Earth permanently, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is responsible for Magellan, put the imaging on hold while they tracked down the problem. It was apparently a faulty computer chip. Electronic signals have been rerouted to bypass the flaw, and meanwhile Magellan's control software is being entirely rewritten to make doubly sure there are no more lapses...
Cases requiring immediate attention will also be able to bypass the system. A new "Urgent Care Clinic" on the first floor of Holyoke Center will treat emergency cases in order of urgency...
...effects of drugs upon employees' performance, ways that do not involve dubiously legal methods such as random urinalysis. New, relatively inexpensive computer tests have been devised to measure how well someone performs in relation to an initial performance test. Use of such tests would be less intrusive and bypass the civil liberties issues involved in random drug testing, and would measure competency rather than chemistry...
Garrity, who presided over hundreds of judicial-bypass hearings, also believes that a youngster can be a good judge of whether parents can handle an unwanted pregnancy on top of their own difficulties or even whether the parents want to be involved. Of the teenagers who came before him, Garrity says, "To a person, they were scared to death, but they did know what they wanted." An alcoholic mother, a drug-addicted father, an absent or neglectful parent are some of the reasons teenagers cite for not going home for help. The fact that only half the minors in Minnesota...